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Board diversity and corporate innovation
This paper aims to investigate the effect of board diversity on corporate innovation. We classify board diversity into two aspects based on the...
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Board diversity of industry expertise: impacts on strategic change and product markets
We provide evidence that board diversity of industry expertise leads to internal strategic change at the firm level. We base our diversity of...
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The dynamic relation between board gender diversity and firm performance: the moderating role of shareholder activism
California became the first state in the US to require gender diversity on publicly corporate boards. To provide timely evidence on the heated...
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Innovation, institutional ownerships and board diversity
This work investigates the relationships between institutional ownership, board diversity, and corporate innovation in US-listed firms. Institutional...
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Do board monitoring and audit committee quality help risky firms reduce CSR controversies?
This study focuses on potential inhibiting and driving factors of corporate social responsibility (CSR) controversies including board monitoring...
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Board overconfidence and M&A performance: evidence from the UK
This paper investigates the relationship between board overconfidence and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) performance based on 754 M&A deals in the UK...
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How do board and ownership characteristics affect bank risk-taking? New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
The study examines the impact of board attributes, ownership structures and other bank-specific factors on bank risk-taking. Using a sample of 220...
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Do risk governance and effective board affect bank performance? Evidence from large banks worldwide
Worldwide, recent corporate financial scandals have raised many questions in terms of risk management and governance of banks. This study examines...
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Former CEOs chairing the board: does it matter to corporate social and environmental investments?
Former CEOs who stay on the board as Chairmen (i.e., Chair-Former-CEO or CFCEO) often play a vital role in monitoring and advising the incumbent...
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Standalone risk management committee, risk governance diversity and Islamic bank risk-taking
Following the global financial crisis of 2008, new policies, rules and regulations were issued to improve corporate governance (CG) practices,...
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Board monitoring and capital structure dynamics: evidence from bank-based economies
We examine the impact of board characteristics on the speed of adjustment and the capital structure dynamics of firms in bank-based economies. Using...
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Board social capital and stock price crash risk
We show how board social capital influences stock price crash risk. Considering that directors are embedded in two kinds of social capital—internal...
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Gender Diversity in Banks and Insurance Companies: The State of Art
This chapter is exclusively empirical as it aims to provide an overview of the gender diversity policies adopted by banks and insurance companies...
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Female Members in Corporate Board of Directors and Financial Performance
The supervisory role the board of directors is an essential corporate governance control mechanism, particularly in countries where external...
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Does board composition and ownership structure affect banks’ systemic risk? European evidence
In this paper, we expand the scarce literature regarding the effects of ownership structure and board composition on market measures of banks’...
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Can Corporate Governance and Sustainability Policies Drive CSR Performance? An Empirical Study
This study investigates how board and audit committee characteristics, alongside sustainable policies, influence corporate social responsibility...
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Gender Diversity in the Insurance Industry: Progress Made and Next Steps
This chapter aims to analyse gender diversity in the insurance sector. It consists of three sections. The first section presents the main evidence...
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Investor Diversity and Liquidity in The Secondary Loan Market
We find strong evidence that investor diversity is beneficial to loan liquidity: More diverse syndicates, as measured by the number of investor-types...
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The impact of board characteristics and CEO power on banks’ risk-taking: stable versus crisis periods
We examine the impact of board structure, CEO power and other bank-specific factors on bank risk-taking for a sample of 72 publicly listed European...
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A Case of Temporary (Extended) “Hard Quotas”: Gender Diversity in Italian Banks
The chapter analyses gender diversity in Italian banks starting from the regulatory framework, first by looking at the Golfo-Mosca Law, which was...